This article was originally published on HEALTH. No medicine cabinet is fully stocked without some good old cherry-flavored cough syrup—or at least that’s how it feels during cold and flu season. But ...

Honey – whether pure or stirred into warm tea or warm milk – can be soothing for coughs. Here, too, the study results are not ...

What do you do when you have a bad cough? If you reach for the yummy, cherry-flavored cough medicine, you're not alone. Every year, people spend billions of dollars on this stuff. But does cough ...

Had a chance to navigate the cough and cold aisle of your pharmacy? Good luck getting what you're looking for. And even if ...

If you have developed a cough which you're struggling with or is keeping you up at night, don't be tempted to buy special medicine to calm it down. Chemists sell two kinds, basically. Cough ...

Scientists are in the final stages of testing a new medicine for persistent cough that contains theobromine, an ingredient found in chocolate and cocoa. The drug, which sadly doesn’t taste like ...

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A common over-the-counter ingredient in many cough syrups may have a greater purpose for people suffering from lung fibrosis that is related to any number of serious health conditions. Scientists from ...

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